"has been given library duty. However, Fletcher is told that he has been given special duties by the Governor. It turns out that the ""special duties"" are on the prison's farm, mucking out the pig sty. However, Fletcher has the last laugh because his cellmate Evans ate the Governor's copy of Farmer's Weekly. New Faces, Old Hands ""New Faces, Old Hands is the first episode of a series of the BBC sitcom ""Porridge"". It first aired on 5 September 1974. In this episode, Norman Stanley Fletcher, Lennie Godber and Cyril Heslop arrive at Slade Prison. The episode opens with Mr"
"prison. The show was later revived in 2017 under the same name, after a one-off special, aired on 28 August 2016 as part of the BBC's ""Landmark Sitcom Season"" and focusing on the life of Fletcher's grandson, Nigel Fletcher (played by Kevin Bishop), as he begins a prison sentence. The main storylines of the sitcom focuses on its central character, Norman Stanley Fletcher, a man from Muswell Hill, London. Fletcher, described as a ""habitual criminal"" by the judge (voiced by Barker himself) who sentences him (and whose words are repeated in the show's opening titles), is sent to HMP Slade,"
"Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher is a BBC Television comedy docudrama, first shown in 2003, that depicts the later life of Norman Stanley Fletcher, the main character in two earlier television series, ""Porridge"" and ""Going Straight"". The film details Norman Stanley Fletcher's life over the 25 years since his release from Slade Prison. The majority of the programme features surviving members of the cast of the original series, in character, and Ronnie Barker appears as Fletcher only in the last few minutes The absence of Fletcher's naïve young cellmate Godber, played"
"by Roy Clarke) and ""Prisoner and Escort"" (written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais) became series. ""Prisoner and Escort"" became ""Porridge"", airing from 1974–1977, with Barker starring as the cynical and cunning prisoner Norman Stanley Fletcher. ""Porridge"" was the first sitcom to take place in a prison; ""The Times"" said the show ""was about what it took to survive in prison, the little day-to-day triumphs over the system that kept the prisoners sane."" The opening sequence of the programme showed Fletcher being directed to his cell, as prison doors are locked behind him, all the while the judge can"
"his old cell-mate Lennie Godber, and has a somewhat cynical view on life as a result of his previous sentences in prison, while he often comes into conflict with prison officer Mr Meekie, whose character is similar to that of Mr Mackay from the original series, in that he firmly dislikes Fletcher and often suspects him of being up to something, and who often mocks him in return as a result. Although Fletcher has a firm dislike of the prison guards, he has some respect for other prison officer Mr Braithwaite, whose character is similar to that of Mr Barrowclough"
"a fictional Category C prison in Cumberland, to serve a jail sentence for his latest crime. The sitcom also follows his cellmate Lennie Godber, a naïve inmate from Birmingham serving his first sentence, whom Fletcher takes under his wing. Each episode's story focuses on their time in prison and the various issues they endure while serving their prison sentences. While both Fletcher and Godber are the show's main characters, the series features two major supporting characters. The first is Mr Mackay, a tough prison officer with a clear dislike of Fletcher, who often comes into conflict with him secretly mocks"
"Norman Stanley Fletcher Norman Stanley ""Fletch"" Fletcher is the main fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Porridge"", and the spin-off, ""Going Straight"". He was played by Ronnie Barker. He was sentenced to serve the particular stretch of 'porridge' detailed in the series due to a long and failing attempt to steal an articulated truck. The truck was full of alcohol. His plan was to drive the truck to a nearby field where he would leave the truck and make off with some of the booze. But he had no idea on how to drive the truck and ended up"
"wanted to write one with a happier ending, however unreal that might be. And here it is."" Fletcher, a former reporter from ""The New York Times"", has been captured by members of a South American dictatorship. The story begins as he is brought into the titular ""deathroom"" for interrogation about an allegedly communist insurgency, which he has been supporting due to the government's killing of a group of nuns which included his sister. Fletcher realizes that his captors, despite their promises to the contrary, will not let him leave the room alive. During the course of his interrogation, Fletcher manages"
"Normie Rowe Norman John Rowe AM (born 1 February 1947) is an Australian singer and songwriter of pop music and an actor of theatre and soap opera for which he remains best known as Douglas Fletcher in 1980s serial Sons and Daughters. As a singer he was credited for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence. Many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Nat Kipner and later by Pat Aulton, house producers for the Sunshine Records label. Backed by his band, The Playboys, Rowe released a string of Australian pop hits on the label that"
"Norman Bates Norman Bates is a fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch as the main antagonist in his 1959 thriller novel ""Psycho""; portrayed by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 version of ""Psycho"" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the ""Psycho"" franchise. He is also portrayed by Vince Vaughn in the 1998 version of ""Psycho"", and by Freddie Highmore in the television series ""Bates Motel"" (2013–2017). Unlike the franchise produced by Universal Studios, Norman is not the principal antagonist in Bloch's subsequent novels and is succeeded by copycat killers who assume Norman's identity after his death in 1982's ""Psycho II""."
"he is a Leyton Orient supporter. Norman Stanley Fletcher Norman Stanley ""Fletch"" Fletcher is the main fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom ""Porridge"", and the spin-off, ""Going Straight"". He was played by Ronnie Barker. He was sentenced to serve the particular stretch of 'porridge' detailed in the series due to a long and failing attempt to steal an articulated truck. The truck was full of alcohol. His plan was to drive the truck to a nearby field where he would leave the truck and make off with some of the booze. But he had no idea on how to"
"kitchens alongside Godber and is an enthusiastic if notoriously untalented cook (although it was said that he did make good pasties). Lukewarm was released three months prior to Fletcher in ""Going Straight"". Fletcher mentions to McLaren that he received a letter from Lukewarm, stating his case is coming up after he was accused of stealing a woman's handbag, which he claimed was his own. In the mockumentary ""Life Beyond The Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher"", his real name is revealed as being Timothy Underwood, although in ""Just Desserts"" he appears to be addressed by a warden as Lewis. It is stated"
"Waiting Room (band) Waiting Room is an Australian band consisting of lead vocalist and actor Alan Fletcher, guitarist Chris Hawker, singer-songwriter Tommy Rando and drummer Jeff Consi. The band play at a public house called ""The Elephant and Wheelbarrow"" in Victoria, Australia. for ""Neighbours Night"" to meet fans. The band often tour the UK, where Fletcher is well-known because of his role in the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"". The band released their debut album ""In the Waiting Room"" in 2005. With Fletcher's link to ""Neighbours"", a couple of their songs have been about ""Neighbours"" characters including ""Sleeping Alongside Susan"" which"
"album titled ""Fortis Green"" in 1999. The group Fairport Convention started off at the family home of Simon Nicol. The house, ""Fairport"", is on the south side of Fortis Green near the junction with Tetherdown and Fortis Green Road. The fictional character Norman Stanley Fletcher of the BBC sitcom Porridge was revealed to be resident of the Fortis Green area in the episode ""Men Without Women"". He was being escorted home from Fortis Green Police station in the direction of Fortis Green Avenue by police officer Sergeant Norris. Fortis Green Fortis Green is a ward in the extreme northwestern corner"
"Prisoner and Escort ""Prisoner and Escort"" is the pilot episode of the BBC sitcom ""Porridge"". It was originally broadcast on 1 April 1973 as part of a project named ""Seven of One"". In this episode, Norman Stanley Fletcher is transported from London to Slade Prison by Mr Mackay and Mr Barrowclough. The episode opens at St Pancras railway station, with a voice-over of the titular character Norman Stanley Fletcher being sentenced to five years in prison. When asked if he has anything to say before sentence is passed, the film jumps to Fletcher on a train saying ""Cobblers"". Fletcher soon"
"the execution of Fletcher's character arc. Sollima considered it to be one of the best and most personal of the films he directed. During the American Civil War, Brad Fletcher retires from his position as History Professor at Boston University due to tuberculosis and retreats to Texas. The sexually repressed Fletcher is a well-meaning, albeit conceited, liberal who opposes violence and human suffering. While taking a siesta, a stagecoach carrying several lawmen and Solomon ""Beauregard"" Bennet, a captured criminal, stops by Fletcher’s hotel. When Fletcher tries to give Bennet a drink of water, he is taken hostage, and they escape"
"Alan Fletcher (actor) Alan Fletcher (born 30 March 1957) is an Australian actor of stage, television and film. He is also a musician. He is best known for his role as Karl Kennedy in long-running soap opera ""Neighbours"". Along with co-star Jackie Woodburne who plays his wife, they are two of the series most popular and longest serving cast. Fletcher is also the 3rd longest serving actor in an Australian serial, after both Home and Away actors Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger Fletcher was born in Perth, Western Australia, and attended Wesley College in Perth, his first widely seen role"
"Louise Fletcher Estelle Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934), known professionally as Louise Fletcher, is an American actress. Fletcher had her acting debut in the television series ""Yancy Derringer"" in 1958. She guest starred in the television series ""Wagon Train"" in 1959 before making her film debut in ""A Gathering of Eagles"" in 1963. In 1974, after a decade-long hiatus from acting in which she raised a family, Fletcher was cast in Robert Altman's ""Thieves Like Us"". The following year, Fletcher gained international recognition for her performance as Nurse Ratched in the drama film ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"""
"of Fletcher's advice on dealing with his wife that Barrowclough is especially lenient when dealing with his requests and misdemeanours. Fletcher once described him as looking like 'Arthur Askey on stilts'. Leonard Arthur ""Lennie"" Godber was played by Richard Beckinsale. Godber is from Birmingham, supports Aston Villa, has an O Level in geography, and studies for a history O Level while in prison. Before he was arrested he shared a flat with his girlfriend Denise in nearby Smethwick. In an effort to get her a gift, Godber broke into a neighbour's flat. He was caught, and it was for this"
"Johnny Fletcher Johnny Fletcher is an American old-time radio comedy-detective drama. It was broadcast weekly on ABC from May 30, 1948, until November 27, 1948. The program was also known as ""A Johnny Fletcher Mystery."" Johnny Fletcher was an amateur detective, ""something of a scofflaw"", created by writer Frank Gruber. The character was featured in at least 18 Gruber novels between 1940 and 1964. The film ""The French Key"" (1946), which starred Albert Dekker as Fletcher, was based on the Fletcher novel of the same title. Radio historian Jim Cox, in his book, ""Radio Crime Fighters: Over 300 Programs from"
"opinions of criminal life that he likes to voice out, though he considers himself to be an ""uncommon criminal"", as he has some regret of the actions he committed, and often seeks to avoid being caught up in illegal schemes that could endanger his well-being or add time to his sentence. Each episode's plot usually focuses on events that Fletcher becomes involved in. In addition to Fletcher, the series also features an array of supporting characters. Like his grandfather, Fletcher shares a cell with another prisoner named Joe Lotterby, a senior but veteran old-time criminal who knew his grandfather and"
"spoken sentences begin with the words ""'ere listen"". Fletcher once commented ""Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle, on the bottle."" Ives is interviewed in the 2003 mockumentary ""Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher"". While most of the ex-prisoners interviewed are shown to have gone straight, Ives is shown collecting for a fake charity. Blanco Webb is played by David Jason. An elderly inmate imprisoned for murdering his wife, Blanco first appears in the episode No Peace for the Wicked where he helps Fletcher steal some Jaffa"
"as prisoner Danny Fincher. Dana Smit reprises her guest role as Sara Johannsen, the wife of Fredrik Johansson (Billy Postlethwaite), in episode 4. Wanda Ventham stars as Shelaigh Chiltern, the grandmother of Lofty, from episode four. She continued appearing until episode 27, before returning in episode 51. Episode six and seven see the introduction of Greta Allinson (Zoe Croft), a love interest for Jason. Croft later joined the semi-regular cast from episode 21. Macey Chipping appears in five episodes across the series as Fletch's daughter, Evie Fletcher, having last appeared in March 2017. Kai O'Loughlin returns to his role as"
"Gerard Maguire Gerard Maguire (born 25 September 1945) is an Australian stage, voice artist, television and film actor, producer and screenwriter best known for his role as Deputy Governor Jim Fletcher in ""Prisoner"". Often appearing on Australian television police dramas and soap operas throughout the 1970s and 80s, he is also one of Australia's top voice actors, voicing numerous commercial and narrations during the 1990s and early 2000s. Maguire began acting during the late 1960s, shortly after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Diploma of Dramatic Art. Out of 3,000 applicants, he was one of 15"
"Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows including numerous recurring roles as varying characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show""; recurring roles as Corporal Henshaw on ""The Phil Silvers Show""; Sergeant Hacker on ""Gomer Pyle, USMC""; Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on ""The Brady Bunch""; and Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker’s Place"". Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York City by his paternal grandparents, Frank and Helen (née Campbell)"
"situation comedy pilot episodes. The most successful would then be made into a full series. One of the episodes was ""Prisoner and Escort"", written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (who appear in one episode) about a newly sentenced habitual criminal, Norman Stanley Fletcher (Barker), being escorted to prison by two warders: the timid Mr. Barrowclough (Brian Wilde) and the stern Mr. Mackay (Fulton Mackay). It was broadcast on 1 April 1973 on BBC Two. Despite Barker's initial preference for another of the pilots, a sitcom about a Welsh gambling addict, ""Prisoner and Escort"" was selected. It was renamed"
"pin-up Bettie Page was interred in the grave beside Melvin. Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows including numerous recurring roles as varying characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show""; recurring roles as Corporal Henshaw on ""The Phil Silvers Show""; Sergeant Hacker on ""Gomer Pyle, USMC""; Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on ""The Brady Bunch""; and Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker’s Place"". Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York"
"sore arm causing him to scream in pain. Grouty and his henchman Crusher confront Fletcher over the missing pills. Harris told Grouty that he dropped the pills off the landing to where Fletcher and Lukewarm were sitting at the time. Grouty knows that Lukewarm wouldn’t have anything to do with drugs, so Fletcher is the prime suspect. Grouty wants the pills returned to the M.O. (Medical Officer, i.e. the prison doctor) as it is interfering with his own pill peddling operation. Fletcher is tasked with returning the bottle of pills to the M.O. within the hour. Godber mentions to Fletcher"
"Dexter Fletcher Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director. He appeared in Guy Ritchie's film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"", crime comedy ""Smoking Guns"" as well as television roles in such shows as the comedy-drama ""Hotel Babylon"", the HBO series ""Band of Brothers"", and earlier in his career, the children's show ""Press Gang"", and the film ""Bugsy Malone"". He also had a short-lived stint at presenting the third series of Channel 4's ""GamesMaster"" that aired between 1993 and 1994. Fletcher made his directorial debut with ""Wild Bill"" (2011), and also directed ""Sunshine On Leith"""
"was a remix of Smokie's ""Living Next Door to Alice"". This was in reference to his characters relationship with Izzy Hoyland. Fletcher toured the UK in September and October 2009 with band The X-Rays featuring Johnny Lucas, Chris Hanby and Martin Stewart. Waiting Room (band) Waiting Room is an Australian band consisting of lead vocalist and actor Alan Fletcher, guitarist Chris Hawker, singer-songwriter Tommy Rando and drummer Jeff Consi. The band play at a public house called ""The Elephant and Wheelbarrow"" in Victoria, Australia. for ""Neighbours Night"" to meet fans. The band often tour the UK, where Fletcher is well-known"
"a teenager. In the 1987 television spin-off movie and series pilot ""Bates Motel"", Norman is never released from the institution after his first incarceration. He befriends Alex West (Bud Cort), a fellow inmate who had murdered his stepfather, and wills ownership of the titular motel to him before dying of old age. The TV series ""Bates Motel"", a contemporary prequel to the 1960 film ""Psycho"", set in the present day, depicts the young Norman Bates' life with his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga). In this continuity, Norman suffers from hallucinations and blackouts, and begins manifesting his ""Mother"" personality while Norma is"
"Bancroft, Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, and Ellen Burstyn before Louise Fletcher received it. Fletcher had only acted once in the 13 years before appearing in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". She was thought of for the role after Shelley Duvall was suggested for an alternative role and Miloš Forman saw Fletcher appear with her in Robert Altman's ""Thieves Like Us"". Author Kesey stated that he based Ratched on the head nurse of the psychiatric ward where he worked. He later ran into her at an aquarium, realizing ""She was much smaller than I remembered, and a whole"
"Diane Fletcher Diane Fletcher (born 17 April 1944) is an English actress. Fletcher was born in Derby, England. She played Nancy in ""Fairly Secret Army"", and has appeared in other popular British television shows such as ""Coronation Street"" as Angela Hawthorne, ""Inspector Morse"", ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"", ""Within These Walls"", ""Midsomer Murders"" and ""Heartbeat"". In 1971 she appeared in ""No One Was Saved"" at the Royal Court Theatre schools scheme. Her first film was Roman Polanski's ""Macbeth"". In the BBC adaptation of ""House of Cards"" and its sequels ""To Play the King"" and ""The Final Cut"", Fletcher played Elizabeth Urquhart, wife"